@techreport{NBERw10172,
 title = "The Effects of Financial Crises on International Trade",
 author = "Zihui Ma and Leonard Cheng",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "10172",
 year = "2003",
 month = "December",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w10172",
 abstract = {This paper studies empirically the effects of financial crises on international trade.  The major findings are that banking crises had a negative impact on imports but a positive impact on exports in the short term, whereas currency crises decreased imports in the short term and stimulated exports in the longer term.},
}